Phormia regina ( Meigen 1826 )

Stotelmyre, Lyle Magee, 2024, Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the Baja California Peninsula, Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 308-330 : 319

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Phormia regina ( Meigen 1826) View in CoL

Musca regina Meigen 1826: 58 . Type Location : not given [= Germany. Aachen area].

Musca thalassina Meigen, 1826: 54 . Junior synonym.

Musca accincta Wiedemann, 1830: 407 . Junior synonym.

Phormia philadelphica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 466 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Phormia cuprea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 467 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Phormia fulvifacies Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 467 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Phormia vittata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 467 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Phormia squalens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 468 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Musca mollis Walker, 1849: 892 . Junior synonym.

Musca bicolor Walker, 1853: 339 . Senior synonym; junior primary homonym preoccupied by Musca bicolor Villers, 1789: 511 , new name for Musca putris Geoffroy, 1785: 490 (in Fourcroy, 1785), junior primary homonym, preoccupied by Musca putris Linnaeus, 1758: 597 View Cited Treatment , [= Themira (Themira) putris ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL ( Sepsidae View in CoL )].

Musca proxima Walker, 1853: 341 . Junior synonym.

Somomya lucens View in CoL Rondani, 1862: 189. Junior synonym.

Lucilia rufipalpis Jaennicke, 1867: 375 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Lucilia stigmaticalis Thomson, 1869: 544 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Somomya nigrina Bigot, 1877b: 247 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Somomyia rufigena Bigot, 1887 View in CoL : clxxxi. Junior synonym.

Somomyia rupicola Bigot, 1888b View in CoL : clxxx. Junior synonym.

Phormia aurisquama Villeneuve, 1928: 151 View in CoL . Junior synonym.

Distribution: Europe. Northern Palaearctic region; Hawaii; Alaska and Quebec southward to Georgia and Mexico.

Remarks: The Black Blowfly is the second most abundant species recorded by Munguia-Ortega in Baja California and ubiquitous throughout California, having been recorded in 46 of the 58 California Counties. It is an occasional producer of human myiasis and in some localities a common facultative parasite in wounds of domestic animals. It is an important sheep wool maggot in parts of the United States. In California, according to information furnished to James in 1955 by Dr. J. R. Douglas, it ranked third in importance in this role, being placed below Cochliomyia macellaria and Lucilia sericata . It has a characteristic metallic blueish-green body with bright orange setae in the thoracic spiracle.

Material examined: BAJA CALIFORNIA: Baja Calif. V. Trinidad , vii-1927 L.M. Huey ( SDM) ; Baja Calif. 26 mi. S. San Felipe, 15-iv-1965 D.Q. Cavagnaro, E.S. Ross, V.L. Vesterby ( CAS); (literature review) : El Mogor , Sierra Juarez, Sierra San Pedro Martir, Cerro Santo Tomas , Rio Hardy, San Felipe, Punta Final, Representative voucher specimens 2017–19 Ketzaly Munguia-Ortega ( ECSR) ; BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR: Guadalupe Island , Baja Calif. NE anchorage 25-x-1957 J.W. Sefton Jr. ( SDM) ; Guadalupe Island , Northwest Anchorage ii-14-1973 J.D. Pinto ( UCR) ; Mexico Baja Calif. 2 mi. NNW San Matias, 13 APR 1980 J.W. Brown ( SDM) ; Isla de Guadalupe 23 Apr 1984 D.K. Faulkner ( SDM) ; Isla de Guadalupe , SE end Village Cyn. 9 Dec 1984 D.K. Faulkner ( SDM) .

References

Bigot, J. M. F. (1877 b) Dipteres nouveaux ou peu connus. 8 partie, X: Genre Somomya (Rondani) Calliphora, Melinda, Mufetia, Lucilia, Chrysomyia (alias Microchrysa Rond.) Robineau-Desvoidy. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, Series 5, 7, 243 - 259. [30 October 1877]

Bigot, J. M. F. (1887) Diagnoses abregees de quelques Dipteres nouveaux, provenant de l'Amerique du nord, dont les descriptions detaillees seront publiees ulterieurement, et qui tous appartiennent a sa collection. Bulletin Bimensuel de la Societe Entomologique de France, 1887 (21), clxxii - clxxiv.

Bigot, J. M. F. (1888 b) Diagnoses abregees de quelques Dipteres nouveaux, provenant de l'Amerique du nord, dont les descriptions detaillees seront publiees ulterieurement, et qui tous appartiennent a sa collection. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 6 (7), clxxx - clxxxii. [11 April 1888]

Fourcroy, A. F. de (1785) Entomologia Parisiensis. VIII. Aedibus Serpentineis, Parisiis [Paris], 544 pp.

Jaennicke, J. F. (1867) Neue exotische Dipteren. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 6, 311 - 408.

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Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. XII. Funfter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann, Hamm, 412 pp.

Robineau-Desvoidy, J. B. (1830) Essai sur les myodaires. Memoires presentes par divers savans a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathematiques et Physiques), 2 (2), 1 - 813.

Rondani, C. (1862) Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol. V. Species Italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars quarta. Muscidae. Phasiinae-Dexiinae-Muscinae-Stomoxidinae. P. Grazioli, Parmae [Parma], 239 pp.

Thomson, C. G. (1869) Diptera. Species nova descripsit. In: Kongliga svenska [Royal Swedish Academy of Siences] fregatten Eugenies resa omkring jorden under befal af C. A. Virgin, aren 1851 - 1853. 2 Zoologi 1, Insecta. 1868. P. A. Norstedt & Soner, Stockholm, pp. 443 - 614.

Villeneuve, J. (1928) Quelques mots sur les Calliphorinae palearctiques. Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 68, 147 - 151.

Villers, C. J. de (1789) Caroli Linnaei entomologia. Vol. 3. Piestre & Delamolliere, Lugduni [Lyon], 657 pp.

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Walker, F. (1853) Diptera. Part IV. In: Saunders, W. W. (Ed.), Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F. R. S., F. L. S., & c. Vol. 1. Van Voorst, London, pp. 253 - 474, pls. 7 - 8.

Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1830) Aussereuropaische zweiflugelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks. Zweiter Theil. Schulz, Hamm, Xii + 684 pp.

Abbreviations

SDM	SDM
CAS	USA, California, San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences
ECSR	ECSR
UCR	USA, California, Riverside, University of California
SDM	Stroud and District Museum
CAS	California Academy of Sciences

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Calliphoridae
SubFamily	Chrysomyinae
Genus	Phormia